Norway’s mass murder and the Unabomber

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Norwegian police have revealed that alleged right-wing terror suspect Anders Breivik was apparently inspired by none other than America’s own homegrown terrorist, Unabomber Ted Kaczynski, to blow up and shoot people in an effort to trigger a revolution against non-Europeans.

Authorities say Breivik posted a 1,500-page manifesto called “2083 — A European Declaration of Independence” on July 22, the same day he allegedly set off a bomb in Oslo that killed seven and then went on a shooting rampage at a summer camp that left dozens dead. The screed rails against multiculturalism and Muslim immigrants to Europe, denigrates feminists and promises punishment for all who don’t join a revolution to toss out non-Europeans.

Unabomber Ted Kaczynski in 1996 when he was booked into jail after being arrested at his cabin in Montana.

If Kaczynski weren’t doing life in a federal prison, he might have had plagiarism lawyers look at the document. It apes his 1996, 63-page manifesto in many ways. That document, “Industrial Society and Its Future,” was a typewritten cry for revolution against modern technology, ranting against all who promoted anything other than a Luddite life.

Breivik’s paper lifts some bits wholesale from the Unabomber, such as this one passage: “Feminists are desperately anxious to prove that women are as strong and capable as men.” Other parts are disturbingly similar to Kaczynski’s writing, swapping out jibes against leftists for jibes against Marxists or multiculturalists.

Both men liked the lonely rural life — Breivik on a farm, Kaczynski in a tiny cabin in Montana. And both apparently liked to kill — Breivik with last week’s carnage, to which he reportedly confessed, and Kaczynski with three killings and 23 injuries between 1978 and his arrest in 1996 as he mailed out bombs in his anti-technology crusade.